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Furthermore, submissions for the entirety of the tournament must be submitted before the tournament begins. You may submit anytime up until the end of the first round, but you will be at a disadvantage. You are never eligible to receive points for a game when your submission comes after the conclusion of that game, or while that game is in progress.

Absolutely no submissions will be accepted after the conclusion of the Round of 64. No exceptions.

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As I am planning on running/operating several Forum competitions per year, I would like to introduce the following new currency to the forums: Bears Poster Points. The "Forum Year" will start each year with March Madness. Preceding the NCAA tournament each year (traditionally in March), the points from the previous year will be tallied up, and the player with the most Bears Poster Points will be crowned Poster of the Year and receive a legendary, exclusive, personalized signature commemorating their leet-ness. The only way to earn Bears Poster Points is to participate in forum events run by yours truly, chisoxguy7. Points will be awarded in the following manner (points based on finish subject to change based on number of participants per event) :

Participate Actively for the FULL duration of a Forum Event/Game: 3 points
Top 10 Finish in any event (does not apply in addition to top 5): 2 bonus points
Top 5 Finish in any event (does not apply to higher tiers): 4 bonus points
3rd place finish in any event: 5 points
2nd place finish in any event: 7 points
1st place finish in any event: 10 points

There is always the possibility that some events may offer bonus Bears Poster Points based on the difficulty of the competition.

A sample league year might look like this (tentative and subject to change):

There is, of course, no guarantees as to any of these events happening, and this is a sample. I would like to hold as many events as possible, as well as increase activity on the Bears forum. The overall year will be designed to test posters' knowledge across several sports, including football, baseball, basketball, and hockey, as well as some wildcard events, such as horse racing, or, in some years, the Olympics.

Also, should anyone else have an idea for a Bears Forum game, I'd love to hear it/help you operate it/make it part of this circuit of events.

Here's what's on the line for this specific event, in addition to the ever-valuable Bears Poster Points (BPP):

The winner of this event will receive their choice of one of the following rewards:

This is getting close, and I wanted to bump it back up for anyone who might be interested. The selection show is on Sunday the 17th, play-in games begin Sunday the 19th. Let's get these rules finalized and kick off our forum year

Count me in. And don't think that I'm weak for choosing Indiana the whole way. I'm a big fan because my dad is an alumni.

Not sure how old you or your Dad are... ask him if he remembers Mr.Indiana Steve Alford. The head coach of my Lobos, I was just at a party last night with his son Bryce._________________BEARS----BULLS----DODGERS----KINGS--

Alright, so far there's just a few of us signed up, which is a shame. You don't have to know anything about college basketball to participate, so what do you have to lose?

Remember:

Submissions for the entirety of the tournament must be submitted before the tournament begins. You may submit anytime up until the end of the first round, but you will be at a disadvantage. You are never eligible to receive points for a game when your submission comes after the conclusion of that game, or while that game is in progress.

Absolutely no submissions will be accepted after the conclusion of the Round of 64. No exceptions.

How to enter:

As I cannot think of a better way to have you guys do entries, and I don't want to direct you to a different website to fill out brackets, in order to enter the competition, I am requesting that each user submit a bracket to me through one of the following methods:

1. Print out and complete a physical copy of the bracket (which can be found here, scan it, upload it via an image hosting service (such as imageshack, tinypic, or imgur), and send the link to the image to me via PM.
2. Complete a bracket online using ESPN or CBS and link me to the entry. Should you choose this method, do not worry about your score in the CBS or ESPN challenge, as I will be scoring this contest using the following rules:

Either of the above methods works fine, but please do remember that your picks for any game which is in progress or already completed will be invalid, and no picks will be accepted following the end of the round of 64.

Once again, the prizes:

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The winner of this event will receive their choice of one of the following rewards: